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May 13, 2008

Carbon Capture - Hope is not a plan

"carbon capture storage (CCS)" is dangled before our eyes to distract us from taking meaningful action...

Currently, CCS is storing a few million tons but to have a meaningful impact on global warming would require the storage of several billion tons - and an entire transportation industry would have to be created just to store carbon dioxide. We would basically be storing carbon dioxide we created in the transportation of ... carbon dioxide. The world's largest transported good would not be food, people or oil - it would be CO2.

Read more from the big-picture essay on carbon capture and sequestration, source: grist.com